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Topic: I Hate Telemarketers!

Grr I just had a telemarketer ring me. Man I hate them - they never get my surname right and I'm never interested in what they're trying to sell me. Dammit an Indian guy was doing a survey, I used the tone of voice that was very clear that I would hit him over the head with something hard if he didn't hurry up and get off the phone... should have let the answering machine take it.

Okay I've had my gripe. Anyone else who hates telemarketers or who know of good lines to get rid of them please make a note here!

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Re: I Hate Telemarketers!

You know those "Do Not Call Me" lists? You have to update it every 2 years or so... Your signature on it expires. My mom, who detests teles with a passion, was so pissed when she found that out. They started calling her again...

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Yeah I'm on that list too. It really did help how many of those dumb calls we were getting. We still get some... but not half as bad as what it was.

The worse was when i was working and when i was in the middle of making a sign and the phone would ring. It was my responsiblity to run across the shop to get the phone... only for it to be an automated tellemarketer. DROVE ME NUTS!

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I feel sorry for them sometimes. When I had to sell ads for my old high school yearbook (yes, I was on the staff *sigh*) it was humiliating to have to launch into a sales speech and have them go "Oh, not interested."

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My house used to get them all the time; my Dad was ready to get some sort of tracing device so he could track them down and make them die a slow painful death

It's worse that we are a totally English speaking family yet have a Spanish last name. Either we're getting telemarketers calling SPEAKING Spanish, or we're getting some English speaking clown who totally butchers our name...............

My Dad would *and still sometimes* cut off the latter's sale's pitch and say "Call back when you learn to say the name right" or tell the former "Call back when you learn the language"........Click

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